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Once again leftovers trump what I had planned, tomorows lunch is leftover meatloaf wellington, corn cob, cucumber, fruit salad, a plum and she picked anzac biscuits as her treat
friday lunch
DD2 is taking the same fruit salad to kindy as she is only there half a day.Dont think I will be making shapes every time I do fruit salad but I might suprise them every now and then. Poor DD3 got all the scraps leftover from around the cut out shapes, she was happy :)
Yummy! These lunches look great. Well sushi was a success. Dd eats a whole cucumber in one sitting if I let her. DS normall screws his face up. But ate the whole thing today! Even found his sister in the playground to inform her how awesome lunch was. WIN!
Just OT for a minute. I saw that glad add tonight with masterchef Julie. Zip locking a zucchini slice for lunches. Individually :/ drives me crazy. We try and keep rubbish to a minimum even in our house. So I snap freeze everything on a board then store it in one big bag or a container to save rubbish. Just gah. That's all.
Yeah, but it's an ad for Glad zip lock bags. Mr Gladbags wouldn't like your hippy, earth saving ways ;)
Eta - too funny! Guess what ad just came on???
I know. But it just made me HATE glad. So advertisement fail.
I love my snap lock bags! I love them so much I wash them and reuse them until they fall apart... :rofl:
That add drives me up the wall too.
What do you mean by snapfreeze? do you have a fancy freezer (ala masterchef) or board, or do you just put it in freezer when warm or something else?:
Let the food cool on the bench, then lay it in a single layer on a tray or board and pop it in the freezer. Once it is frozen, you can pick the pieces up and put them in a container or bag together and they will not be all stuck together. You can pull one out at a time.
that makes sense. ta!
That's it! It just means that nothing sticks together. You can do this with anything. It's a really good trick.
I am lazy, one all cooled I just chuck in a bag or container. Most of the time they don't stick together too much, depends on what it is really.
Nut-free schools? OK, DS has that but I don't believe it is followed. They let DS in. I'd have lived in a home-school majority area if they made my primary school nut-free all those years ago.
Liebling's lunches this week (that I've made - DH does them when he's around and I'm ill/he's doing the school run usually):
Ham sandwich, apple, cake, water
Ham and cucumber sandwich, raisins, apple, water
2 small samosas, carrot and cucumber sticks, hummous, yoghurt, water
Liebling eats two/three bowls of cereal and some toast before school, fruit at school, then has a cooked snack (eg beans on toast, pancakes...) at about 4.30 then a cooked dinner at 6. He likes getting to pick his lunches, even if he doesn't eat them all, and really likes it if I put in cold pizza or superhero cakes (really tiny cakes with superhero masks on them done with icing).
I told DH about freezing and he reakons things won't defrost in time??? Was talking about some yummy zucchini muffins I made last night and want to make up another batch for her to freeze? Anyone have this happen with any food they freeze?
Never had an issue. If it is cold weather I will pull things out the night before and leave the lunchbox to defrost on the bench overnight, or in the fridge if it is warmer, but I have never had any issues. The size portions of food we are talking about though are really not big, so it doesn't take long.
You could take things out the night before if youre worried. I do that because kindy keeps lunches in a fridge.
It can depend on when they are eating it. DD does not have lunch till 1pm, so that is a long day for a sandwich to sit in a lunch box even with an ice pack. Certainly for lunch items, I prefer them frozen.
I've certainly never had an issue with things defrosting, but I am conscious of weather. Middle of winter, put in the fridge the night before - 35 degrees, get out of freezer as you're walking out the door. Depends as well on size - are you doing mini muffins or a full size one (eg one batch makes 12 - one tin). Full size will take 3 times as long to defrost.
Thanks all! I'm inclined to trial it - made full sized muffins and lunch is at 1 so I reakon it would be fine. You have all Inspired me to make some tummy healthy stuff for my Poppets.
Tan I trialled it last week and a full sized muffin taken out of the freezer at 8.30am was fully defrosted by lunch time. But it was a warm day. I think on cooler days I'll take it out the night before for her.
Today's 'lunch box', corn cobs, sliced apples, rice bread with avocado,small sausage roll, blueberries, crackers + avocado dip. Corn, blueberries, apple & sausage roll gone.
Today: Rice, teriyaki chicken pieces, corn, carrots, banana, mango cupcake and a piece of strass because she randomly asked for one! LOL
SSssshhhhhhh!!!! My kids might move to your house. They have passports.:
Thanks Lis!!!!
i am so impressed, with what all your children eat, fantastic range of food.
Think i have got lucky, no Lunchbox inspections, or Shaming in my kid's school.
We did receive a letter explaining some stuff e.g avoid un-necessary wrappers, avoid supermarket bars and pre=packaged stuff, avoid treat food (sugary treats), no liquid apart from water in their bottles. Bilby tells me her bestie brings LCM bars, so i can tell the school is not strict, they might suggest what to put in the lunch, but no consequences if you don't. The kids all watch to see what each other has in their lunchbox, whoever has the treat food, the rest say "no fair, brown bear". e.g the kid with the LCM bar, or an iced cupcake (contraband!!!!).
I try to adhere to their suggestions, as much as i can with a child who eats very few things. E.g i use cheese slices, instead of block cheese. I'm sure i rely more than i should, on crackers (yes, even rice crackers). I put one piece of fruit (they have fruit time at 9.30 every day). Sometimes i give her traffic lights (cut up sticks of capsicum, celery, carrot, snowpeas), they never get eaten, but i try (sigh).
My version of the "naked" food (e.g no gladwrap) is to put her stuff in re-usable boxes. But now the school is not cutting up their fruit (at Gr. 1 fruit time), i am trying out, wrapping the cut up pear (for example) in alfoil, to see if that helps with the browning of the fruit. to lessen it. I know she would totally refuse to eat the pear, if i did the usual lemon juice trick. So, not totally "naked" food this year.
You can cut fruit and hold it together with a rubber band to help stop the browning. It works with apples, so it might work with pears, even though they may be too a bit to soft and have the band damage them.
Other wise I do find cut fruit stays pretty good in a air tight container, especially if you keep some of the cut pieces together.
Rouge, any chance you could re post the scroll recipe that N2L asked for?? I'm having laptop disagreements and can't seem to find it! and am hoping to have a baking day today!!
Thank you!
Sure!
Now there's two types. Ones that rise with SR flour. And ones that use yeast. I prefer the yeast ones, but I'll give both recipes for convenience.
Yeast Free Scrolls (adapted from taste)
300g (2 cups) self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
90g butter, cut into cubes
160ml (2/3 cup) milk
Plain flour, to dust
Step 1
Preheat oven to 210C. Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper. Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the milk. Use a round-bladed knife in a cutting motion to mix until evenly incorporated and the mixture begins to hold together.
Step 2
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead until smooth. Use a lightly floured rolling pin to roll out the dough into a 30 x 40cm rectangle.
Step 3
Spread tomato paste/mayonnaise/vegemite & butter (whatever you plan to do really) evenly over the dough, leaving a 2cm border around the edge. Sprinkle with the cheddar, ham and any other toppings. Starting from a long side, roll up firmly to form a log. Brush the edge with a little extra milk and press down firmly to seal the log. Cut crossways into 12 equal portions, about 3cm thick. Place scrolls on the prepared tray. Bake in preheated oven for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.
Now the recipe I use for my scrolls is a Thermomix one. You could easily use a mixer, like a KitchenAid and a dough hook but if you don't have these I would google a no-knead bread recipe. Pioneer woman has a few which you could alter the sugar levels of. And her cinnamon scroll recipe is the best which could be easily made into savoury scrolls.
If you want the TMX Recipe I'll PM you as they are funny about their recipes being reproduced. But if you google Tenina Cheesy Scrolls Theremomix it will come up. Keep in mind with any of these recipes you need to experiment with sizes, rising times and dishes used for each recipe. As everyone is different has different tools and the climate is different everywhere.
Oh for a child who ate half of what has been listed here. DS is starting Kindy tomorrow, three full days, and I have no idea what to give him. He eats NO fruit, NO vegetables. Doesn't like 'combined' foods - a slice or sushi would be out of the question. Used to eat muffins with grated vegies in, but i went too far one day and added zucchini and now he won't touch them. Honestly, I think it's going to be vegemite sandwiches x 3. If his school did a lunchbox inspection I would be irate, some kids are very fussy and very determined and who is a teacher to judge a parent on what they give their child? If he would eat healthy food I would spend hours preparing it, but he simply won't. It's embarrassing, but not much I can do about it.
Some kids will eat stuff at school and kinder, that they won't eat in front of their parents. They see what other kids eat and sometimes will come home asking for that food.
I've just made and frozen a heap of rolls for DD2's lunches. She helped me make them, so I know they'll get eaten.
I am contemplating freezing their yoghurt so it doesn't mysteriously disappear (or get eaten) after school while I'm at work. Does anyone else do that, how does it go?
Frozen yoghurt is the best I remember doing that when I was in school. :D
I'm bummed. I just made corn fritters and they don't like the corn kernels! They'd eat em if only had cheese and ham but that's kinda going against the whole point ( making healthy lunches). At least its not processed i guess.
If you blitz the corn in the food processor with the batter they won't even know they are there. You can hide anything with a food processor :)
Hmmm..... I think I need to get myself a food processor!
Honeybee, you'd be surprised what kids eat when peer pressure is at hand! I would be putting one thing in the lunches which you don't expect that he will eat and see what happens. If he doesn't eat it so be it, but he might have a go! Especially if he's hungry.
I have baked up a storm the last few days, making some raspberry-coconut loaf, and cutting it to freeze.
Some cheese and veg muffins and some small chocolate cupcakes.
It's funny for me, at my kids pre school, they have a healthy lunches policy, but I often put in home made goodies like choc chip pancakes, small choc muffins/cupcakes or various biscuits, and the kids have been allowed to eat them, but I have had friends tell me they give them those sorts of things brought from the shop ( so packaged stuff) and their kids haven't been allowed to eat them and they get sent home with a note! I think they feel it's healthier for them to have home made (which it usually is!).
Can you make fritters with wholemeal flour? Will it taste really different?
Also, its ok to eat tuna cakes cold hey?
Yes you can and yes you can :)
Yes, yes little and yes, 2CM... :)
Haha :-) guess that's a yes!
My DD has been to school for 2 days.. And had the same each day.
morning tea was cheese, plain rice crackers, sultanas and 2 slices of apple.
Lunch was cheese sandwich, rest of apple, and a squeezy yoghurt and some carrot sticks.
I just went shopping for the start of this week and she asked for grapes and cucumber and carrots instead of apple.. But otherwise it is pretty much the same.
So excited! DDs new lunchbox arrived in the post on Friday, picked it up from the PO yesterday! :D She was concerned it looked so small, but I think she will be happy when she sees how much I can actually get into it.